Name Yearbook

Top baby names in North Carolina, 1931

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,443
2	Betty	1,608
3	Dorothy	962
4	Margaret	741
5	Annie	676
6	Doris	594
7	Helen	585
8	Peggy	551
9	Frances	478
10	Ruth	438
11	Mildred	435
12	Barbara	433
13	Ruby	430
14	Martha	413
15	Virginia	403
16	Nancy	387
17	Elizabeth	369
18	Sarah	354
19	Evelyn	349
20	Hazel	308
21	Edna	302
22	Louise	270
23	Joyce	265
24	Alice	261
25	Gladys	254
26	Clara	230
27	Ethel	228
27	Lillie	228
27	Thelma	228
30	Jean	225
31	Emma	219
32	Edith	201
33	Lois	197
34	Willie	191
35	Marie	182
36	Nellie	180
37	Catherine	179
38	Pauline	175
39	Margie	174
40	Mattie	172
41	Shirley	169
42	Juanita	164
43	Geraldine	163
44	Lucille	159
44	Rosa	159
46	Rachel	156
47	Minnie	155
48	Lillian	154
49	Bertha	152
50	Carolyn	150

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	2,637
2	William	1,800
3	Robert	1,428
4	John	1,307
5	Charles	996
6	George	682
7	Bobby	591
8	Billy	575
9	Thomas	560
10	Willie	461
11	Jack	401
12	Joseph	397
13	David	380
13	Richard	380
15	Edward	357
16	Walter	347
17	Paul	338
18	Henry	327
19	Donald	324
20	Harold	302
21	Ralph	274
22	Fred	272
23	Joe	265
24	Roy	263
25	Frank	248
26	Charlie	247
27	Clarence	220
27	Kenneth	220
29	Carl	211
30	Howard	205
31	Earl	201
32	Ernest	198
33	Raymond	195
34	Samuel	192
35	Herbert	189
36	Clyde	179
37	Eugene	173
38	Arthur	163
39	Ray	161
40	Harry	156
41	Albert	155
42	Jesse	154
43	Marvin	146
44	Floyd	130
45	Melvin	125
46	Jerry	120
46	Leroy	120
48	Herman	119
49	Cecil	115
50	Johnnie	114